Bannertail 



tips. "All's well !" is the word they are 

 passing, and if you continue very discreet 

 and kind, they will take up their lives 

 again. The silent trees will give up dryad 

 forms, not many, not hundreds, not even 

 scores, but a dozen or more, and they will 

 play and live their greenwood lives about 

 you, unafraid. They will come near, if 

 you still emanate unenmity, so you may 

 see clearly the liquid eyes, the vibrant 

 feelers on their legs and lips. And if these 

 be tree-top wood-folk, very big and strong 

 • \ of their kind, with silvery coats and 

 brownie caps, and tails that are of mar- 

 vellous length and fluff, like puffs of yel- 

 low smoke with silver frills or flashes of a 

 6&)\ white light about them, then be sure of 



fT this, by virtue of the sleek, lithe beauty 



:r /-& of their outer forms and the quick wood- 





£ggi wisdom of their little brains — you are 



.-*%>// 



dtf.Yv. brood. 



watching a clan of Bannertail's own 





